Study Group: Computer Hardware Distributors(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 40
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
Michael Horsch FizzSenior Advisor
FCI Inc.
Michael Horsch Fizz is the Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. He specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology vendors. Vendors include but are not limited to Avaya,...
Mark TeterChief Technology Officer
ADVANCED SYSTEMS GROUP
Mark Teter is the Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Systems Group, a value added reseller and systems integrator. He is responsible for managing accounts for Sun Microsystems, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, Symantec, Qlogic, Emulex, F5, Adaptec, Network Appliance, Cisco, Quantum, Brocade and Checkpoint....
Ian AshEnterprise Sales Manager
Softchoice Corporation- CC
Ian Ash is a sales manager at SoftChoice, a software and hardware reseller in the New York tri-state area. He is responsible for managing sales of hardware and software to corporate clients, including members of the Fortune 500, throughout North America. He is knowledgeable in products from Computer...
Senior Account Manager
Key Code Media, Inc
Zeke Margolis is a Senior Account Manager for Key Code Media, the largest technology hardware/software provider in Los Angeles and Avid Technology's largest reseller worldwide. He has over 15 years experience providing solutions for audio, video, graphics, 3D animation, DVD production, streaming media,...
Executive Director
Four Points Technology, L.L.C.
Thomas Flynn is the Executive Director of Four Points Technology, providing IT products and Services to the Federal government. Previously, he was the Executive Director - Partners & Programs at Apptis...
Cliff McElroyPresident
Datec, Inc.
Cliff McElroy is the President of Datec, systems integrator and value added reseller providing data center solutions, LAN, WAN and VPN, application optimization, global availability, data center power, backup recovery, storage, security, convergence and wireless applications. He is experienced in selling...
President and Chief Executive Officer
Zunesis, Inc.
Steve Shaffer is a 25 year veteran of the IT industry and is currently the President and CEO of Zunesis, Inc., a value added reseller (VAR). Zunesis buys its products from Avnet & other distributors. The company covers the Western US, excluding California, and the Ohio Valley / Mid-West and is focused...
Howard BergmanVice President
Derive Technologies LLC
Howard Bergman is a Vice President at Derive Technologies, a value added reseller. Derive is a Hewlett Packard Gold Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, Citrix Platinum Partner, Symantec Enterprise Partner, VMWare, RedHat “Linux Elite”, RSA Platinum Partner, Cisco, IBM, and Apple Enterprise Partner. He...
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| Hardware Sellers | 481 |
| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 11681 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 6200 |
| Security Software Sellers (North America) | 192 |
| Software Sellers who are GLG Leaders and Scholars | 116 |
| PC Storage Device Purchasers and Sellers | 225 |
| Storage Experts | 141 |
GLG NewsSMAnalyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts(?)
The different drivers for Enterprise and Consumer will remain stable and more dynamic on the consumer side. HDD vendors will grow constantly as data and units growth is exceeding growth by tech and price decline. New stars on storage to come up and might drive interesting aquisitions.
Soho / consumer NAS will show stable growth in high 2digits over the next years. While the competition environement has become more close over the last 2 years, this segment is still in the beginning. Iomega offers a well known brand and market awareness for the low end segment.
In depth partnership between Ciena and Hitachi Data Systems will suggest both companies are targeting the ISP / Telecommunication market and are expecting further changes in regulations how (long) critical data in the www has to be stored tomorrow.
1) Due diligence is expected and the news of tightening belts was predicted. 2) In the last quarter we have found all verticals are experiencing some level of conservative spending. 3) However, we have also seen increased spending with some vendors and/or specific vendor products and solutions. ...
I will agree, that a collapse is overkill. But I see a softening of transactions and more projects help up at CFO level and because companies can't hire, and retain talent efficiently. This talent is the hold up of implementing new technologies, none the least is datacenter challenges around power. ...
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